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WOMEN  DESIGNERS 
OF  BOOK-PLATES 


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WOMEN  DESIGNERS 
OF  BOOK-PLATES 

By  Wilbur  Macey  Stone 


Published  for  The  Triptych 
By  Randolph  R.  Beam 


New  York  : : : 1902 


Copyright  by 
Randolph  R.  Beam 
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LIBRARY 


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To  ADELAIDE  HELEN  PAGE 
The  Younpest  ct Woman  Designer” 


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'This  is  a list  of  the  prints 
to  be  found  in  this  book : 


Frontispiece.  Egerton  Castle 
by  Mrs.  Agnes  Castle 
Amos  Bonsall 

by  Mary  W.  Bonsall 
Cranston  Brenton 

by  Mrs.  Eliz.  C.  Brenton 
Semper  Bonis  Artibus 

by  Mrs.  Lina  Burger 
Vivien  Brown 

by  Minna  Brown 

Mitchell 

by  Mrs.  Beulah  M.  Clute 
John  O.  Roe 

by  Margaret  Elwood 
John  Jay  Farnsworth 

by  Ethel  N.  Farnsworth 
Margery  Lattimer 

by  May  Chatteris  Fisher 
William  Neish 

by  Mrs.  Georgia  F.  Gaskin 
Louise  M.  Glazier 

by  Louise  M.  Glazier 
Lucy  H.  Booth 

by  Mary  F.  Hackley 
The  Plastic  Club 

by  Elisabeth  M.  Hallowell 
Mary  K.  Wheatland 

by  Olive  Lothrop  Grover 
Margarethe  Heisser 

by  Margarethe  Heisser 
Martha  Scott  Anderson 

by  Margarethe  Heisser 
Irene  Hardy 

by  Mrs.  Annie  B.  Hooper 


John  Francis  Harris 

by  the  Kalo  Shop 
Marjorie  Curtiss 
by  Mabel  Key 
Florence  Levetus 

by  Celia  Levetus 
Florence  Cornelia  Ellwanger 
by  Mrs.  Mary  D.  Little 
William  Augustus  Babcock 

by  Florence  Estelle  Little 
Presentation  Plate 

by  Mrs.  Blanche  McM.  Mansfield 

A.  Helen  Page 

by  Adelaide  Helen  Page 
Henry  J.  Patten 

by  Mary  L.  Prin divide 

Frank  M.  Elliot 

by  Christia  M.  Reade 
Eugene  Gerald  Fassett 
by  Mary  M.  Reid 
Walter  Dana  Swan 
by  Amy  Sacker 
Ernest  Olmstead  Saltmarsh 
by  Bertha  E.  Saltmarsh 

Sarah  Marguerite  Scribner 

by  S.  Marguerite  Scribner 

Frank  Tyars 

by  Pamela  Colman  Smith 

Joyce  Woolmer 

by  Helen  Stratton 

Bhalu  and  Jackson 

by  Helen  Stratton 

Sarah  Bradford  Williams 
by  Emma  J.  Totten 

Fairfax  Henry  Wheelan 

by  Mrs.  Albertine  R.  Wheelan 

Eunice  Morgan  Schenck 
bv  Grace  Wright 


WOMEN  DESIGNERS 
OF  BOOK-PLATES 


Ever  since  the  birth  of  Art  in 
the  dim  past,  women  have 
been  producers  of  embroid- 
eries and  the  daintier  forms  of 
decoration,  and  in  the  world  of  bibli- 
olatry  some  of  our  most  cherished 
examples  of  old  bindings  are  the 
embroidered  covers  done  by  dainty 
mediaeval  hands.  The  book-plate  is 
essentially  a bit  of  embroidery  or 
decoration  embodying  the  person- 
ality of  the  owner.  So  it  seems  fit- 
ting that  the  women  should  have  at 
least  some  share  in  its  production. 
Writers  on  this  subject  and  collectors, 
have  paid  scant  courtesy  to  woman 
as  a designer  of  book-plates,  although 
as  an  owner  and  user  she  has  had  her 
full  share  of  attention. 

This  essay  is  not  one  of  history  or 
criticism  but  rather  of  appreciation 
of  the  work  of  the  women  of  to-day 
in  this  field  of  design,  although  in  the 
last  century  there  were  some  excellent 
book-plates  made  by  women.  Prom- 
inent in  the  richer  collections  of  the 
present  are  a couple  of  designs  by 
Agnes  Berry,  made  in  1793  for  Anna 
Darner  of  England ; while  in  France, 
Louise  le  Daulceur,  Therese  Broch- 
ery,  Madame  Jourdan  and  others  are 


known  to  have  signed  ex  libris.  Ger- 
many also  has  a few  eighteenth  cen- 
tury designs  to  her  credit. 

The  most  celebrated  woman  of  the 
past  (and  with  a past)  to  do  a book- 
plate is  Madame  Pompadour  who 
not  only  designed  the  little  label  for 
her  library  at  Crecy  but  also  etched  it. 

Ordinary  and  ill-made  book-plates 
are  largely  in  evidence  among  men 
designers  and  we  regret  to  admit  that 
the  women  who  have  essayed  in  this 
field  are  also,  at  times,  afflicted  with 
dearth  of  ideas  and  weakness  of  exe- 
cution, but  even  the  least  skilled  seem 
to  have  had  some  happy  thoughts  and 
to  have  been  able  to  express  them 
pleasingly. 

In  gathering  the  material  for  this 
little  book  it  has  been  surprising  to 
note  the  large  number  of  women 
who  have  designed  book-plates; 
some  of  course  in  an  amateurish  and 
dilettante  way  but  many  seriously 
and  with  ability. 

It  is  always  interesting  to  note  the 
extremes  in  our  pursuits,  so,  starting 
at  infancy,  the  credit  of  being  the 
youngest  “woman  designer”  un- 
questionably belongs  to  Miss  Ade- 
laide Page  of  Boston,  who,  at  the 
age  of  four  and  one-half  years,  drew 
for  herself  a book-plate  that  is  re- 
freshingly delightful.  After  impor- 
tuning her  mother,  who  is  also  a 
designer,  for  a book-plate,  until  her 


patience  was  exhausted,  Miss  Helen 
took  up  the  pencil  on  her  own  ac- 
count. The  result  was  reproduced 
in  exact  fac-simile  and  prints  of  it  are 
to  be  found  among  the  treasures  of 
many  large  collections.  Miss  Mar- 
guerite Elwood,  daughter  of  an  ardent 
collector  of  Rochester  is  perhaps 
second  in  point  of  youth.  At  the 
age  of  twelve  she  made  for  herself  a 
plate,  punning  both  her  names.  This 
design  is  well-drawn  and  is  in  every 
way  creditable.  Miss  Elwood  has 
since  devoted  serious  study  to  draw- 
ing and  there  are  now  some  half-dozen 
book-plates  bearing  her  signature. 

Very  few  women  have  used  the 
engraver's  burin  or  the  etcher's 
needle;  they  have  usually  been  con- 
tent to  stop  with  the  making  of  the 
design.  There  are,  however,  a few  who 
have  carried  their  work  through  to  the 
printing  plate.  Mrs.  Benthall  and 
Miss  Helard  in  England  and  Miss 
Little  in  this  country  are  the  only 
ones  in  this  class  that  it  has  been  my 
fortune  to  find.  Mrs.  Benthall 
etches  her  designs,  which  are  usually 
pictorial.  Several  of  these  are  for 
children.  Miss  Helard’s  are  nearly 
all  armorial  designs,  engraved  on 
copper  or  steel,  and  are  rich  in  con- 
ception and  skillfully  executed.  Miss 
Little,  of  Cleveland,  has  made  about 
a dozen  designs  some  five  or  six  of 
them  being  etched  by  herself.  The 


others  are  reproduced  by  photo- 
process. 

A number  of  women  who  have 
attained  more  or  less  literary  celebrity 
have  turned  their  hands  to  book- 
plate designing.  Mrs.  Agnes  Castle, 
whose  novels,  in  collaboration  with 
her  talented  husband,  have  been  on 
the  high  wave  of  popularity  of  late, 
has  made  several  book-plates.  Those 
designed  for  her  husband  are  the  best 
known.  Mrs.  Arthur  Gaskin,  who 
has  written  and  illustrated  a number 
of  books  for  children,  has  made 
several  book-plates  in  her  pleasing 
style.  On  this  side  of  the  water, 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Curtis  Brenton, 
whose  rendering  of  the  Rubaiyat  has 
brought  her  enduring  fame,  has  done 
two  excellent  book-plates,  one  for 
herself  and  one  for  her  husband. 

The  natural  love  pf  women  for 
children  shows  itself  in  the  subject 
we  are  considering.  A large  pro- 
portion of  the  designers  in  our  list 
have  done  one  or  more  plates  for 
children.  Miss  Kate  Greenaway  is 
doubtless  the  best  known  illustrator 
who  has  made  children's  book-plates. 
Several  of  her  designs  have  been  re- 
produced in  the  various  works  on 
book-plates.  Miss  Fisher  of  Man- 
chester and  Miss  Levetus  of  Bir- 
mingham have  been  particularly 
happy  in  book-plates  for  the  nur- 
sery. Mention  must  also  be  made  of 


the  designs  by  Miss  Stratton,  another 
English  artist,  who  has  made  book- 
plates for  two  small  boys  and  one  for 
two  small  dogs.  In  one  of  these 
designs  she  uses  the  Mother  Goose 
and  Fairyland  folk  in  most  graceful 
style. 

Miss  Levetus  has  made  more 
plates  than  any  other  woman  designer 
that  I have  been  able  to  find.  At  last 
accounts  she  had  reached  twenty-five. 
They  are  of  high  merit  and  many  of 
them  have  been  reproduced  in  book- 
plate volumes  and  periodicals. 

A panel  design  by  Miss  Bonsall, 
of  the  Plastic  Club  of  Philadelphia,  is 
commemorative  of  the  famous  Arctic 
expedition  of  Dr.  Kane,  in  which  her 
father,  Amos  Bonsall,  took  part. 
The  design  shows  their  staunch  vessel 
ice-bound  in  the  north.  Another 
design  by  a Plastic  Club  member  is 
the  one  for  the  Club's  library,  and 
was  chosen  in  competition.  It  is  by 
Miss  Hallowell,  who  has  done 
several  other  designs  of  merit. 

In  this  country,  Mrs.  Beulah 
Mitchell  Clute  stands  at  the  head  for 
number  of  designs  and  also,  among  a 
very  few,  near  the  top  in  quality. 
Mrs.  Clute  has  made  about  twenty 
designs  of  most  dainty  conception 
and  well-nigh  perfectly  drawn.  An- 
other Chicago  designer,  or  rather 
group  of  designers,  is  known  under 
the  name  of  the  Kalo  Shop  and  is 


composed  of  five  young  women  who 
do  a variety  of  artistic  stuff*  They 
have  done  several  book-plate  designs 
of  which  the  stand  of  corn,  for  Mr. 
Harris,  is  a good  example.  Chicago 
seems  to  have  her  full  share  of  women 
designers  of  book-plates.  Miss  Mary 
Reid  and  Miss  Christia  Reade  have 
both  done  excellent  work  in  the  city 
by  the  lake.  Miss  Reid  draws  many 
of  her  motifs  from  the  wild  flowers 
and  woods,  and  treats  them  in  a 
highly  decorative  manner.  One  con- 
ventional design,  based  on  the  dande- 
lion leaf,  is  especially  good.  Miss 
Reade  goes  to  the  same  inexhaustible 
source  for  motifs,  her  favorite  subject 
being  the  oak,  whose  leaves  and 
acorns  she  has  used  in  a pleasing 
manner  in  several  plates. 

The  Pacific  coast  is  represented 
by  some  interesting  designs  by  Mrs. 
Wheelan  of  San  Francisco. 

In  New  York, Mrs.  Annie  Hooper, 
a well-known  illustrator  and  decora- 
tive designer,  has  made  a few  book- 
plates that  are  a potent  element  in 
raising  the  general  average  of  women’s 
work  in  this  field.  A short  time  ago 
Mrs.  Hooper  was  the  prize  winner 
in  a book-plate  competition  insti- 
tuted by  the  Buffalo  Society  of 
Artists.  This  design  was  for  the 
Society’s  library  and  was  reproduced 
in  the  New  York  Tribune  — an  un- 
usual honor. 


Miss  Amy  Sacker  of  Boston,  whose 
book-cover  designs  all  lovers  of  dec- 
oration know  and  admire,  has  also 
made  a number  of  book-plates.  The 
best  known  is  the  one  for  the  Loring 
Reading  Room.  This  shows  a fine 
old  ship  full  of  action,  and  rich  in 
decorative  feeling.  Miss  Sacker’s 
mediaeval  students,  in  their  pictur- 
esque garments  are  always  interesting. 
The  plate  for  Mr.  Swan  pleasingly 
typifies  the  owner’s  profession. 

“Widdecombe  Fair”  by  Miss  Pa- 
mela Colman  Smith,  published  in 
colors  some  year  or  more  ago,  gave  a 
new  and  delightful  sensation  to  lovers 
of  decorative  illustration  and  intro- 
duced us  to  a new  personality  in  the 
art  world.  Miss  Smith  has  since  done 
other  work  of  a similar  kind  and  a few 
book-plates.  These  latter  are  bits  of 
thorough  impressionism  and  are  very 
delightful  to  those  of  us  who  like 
that  kind,  but  must  really  be  thorns 
to  the  realist. 

Miss  Totten  is  doing  wonderfully 
telling  work  in  the  simple  manner  of 
the  Japanese.  Her  sprays  of  flowers, 
almost  in  silhouette,  and  her  butter- 
flies and  lanterns  are  most  effective 
and  refreshing,  and  a good  foil  to  the 
prevailing  involved  designs. 

The  book-plate  is  enjoying  a well- 
deserved  popularity  at  present, 
though  doubtless,  in  true  American 
fashion,  it  will  be  overdone;  never- 


theless  the  range  of  design  is  so  broad 
and  the  manner  of  treatment  so 
varied,  that  we  can  stand  a lot  of  it 
without  tiring.  It  has  been  encourag- 
ing to  find  so  large  an  interest  in 
book-plate  work  among  the  women 
designers  of  this  country.  And  while 
many  have  done  plates  in  rather  an 
experimental  way,  they  all  seem  to 
appreciate  the  possibilities  of  the  field 
and  the  returns  in  pleasure  and  profit 
to  those  who  work  it  conscientiously. 
And  so  almost  each  month  finds  new 
hands  and  heads  experimenting  and 
the  older  ones  gaining  a surer  balance 
and  firmer  touch. 


CHECK  LIST  OF  WOMEN 
DESIGNERS 

A few  words  of  explanation  will  be 
of  assistance  to  those  using  the  fol- 
lowing list.  The  nationality  of  the 
designer  is  indicated  by  a letter  pre- 
ceding name,  as  A for  Austria,  B for 
Great  Bhtain,  C for  Canada,  F for 
France,  G for  Germany,  S for  United 
States,  Sw  for  Sweden. 

Contemporaries  have  no  dates  in- 
dicated. Designers  of  the  past  have 
dates  appended. 

Where  the  number  of  plates  de- 
signed by  an  artist  is  known  it  is 
given  in  brackets,  following  name. 

S Abbot,  Mrs.  Eleanore  Plaisted 
B Adams,  Mrs.  H.  Isabel  (3) 

B Alday,  

B Allen,  Olive 
B Amsden,  Henriette 
S Armstrong,  Margaret 
B Armytage,  Cecilia  (5) 

S Atwood,  Clara  E.  (5) 

G Bagge,  Bertha  (5) 

S Baillie,  Mrs.  Grace  M. 

B Balfour,  Kathleen  F. 

B Bathurst,  Countess  Lilias 
G Becker,  Anna  (2) 

B Benthall,  Mrs.  Annie  (6) 

G Berkham,  Emma 
G Bernhard,  Sophie  (2) 

B Berry,  Agnes  (2).  1793 
G Biedermann,  Mrs.  C.  von 
B Birch, 


G Bois-Raymond,  Lucy  du  (7) 

S Bonsall,  Mary  W.  (3) 

B Bonus,  Isabel 
B Bramley- Moore,  Millicent  (6) 

S Brenton,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Curtis 
B Brickdale,  E.  F.  (z) 

S Brown,  Minna  (2) 

G Bulow,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  von  (6) 
G Burger,  Mrs.  Lina 
B Burgess/Ethel  Kate 
B Byfield,  Mary 
B Castle,  Mrs.  Agnes  (8) 

S Center,  Mrs.  Millie  Hyde 
S Chamberlain,  Mary  E. 

S Cheney,  Mary  Moulton 
G Clason,  Luise 
B Clennell,  Beatrice  E. 

S Clute,  Mrs.  Bulah  Mitchell  (18) 
B Cook,  Mrs.  Jane  Elizabeth  (5) 

G Coudenhove,  Countess  von  (2) 

B Dearmer,  Mrs.  Mabel  (3) 

G Densinger,  Mollie 
B Dixon,  Anna 
B Dobbin,  Ethel  M. 

C Donly,  Mrs.  Emma  Brook 
S Eddy,  Mrs.  Mary 
S Eggleston,  Allegra 
G Elskamp,  May 
S Elwood,  Margaret  (6) 

G Engel,  Mrs.  Amalie  (11) 

B Este,  Margaret  (6) 

S Farnsworth,  Ethel  N.  (2) 

S Farr,  Sophia  Sword 
B Fisher,  May  Chatteris  (10) 

B Florence,  Mary  Sargent 
S Fuller,  Grace 


S Gage,  Mabel  C. 

B Gaskin,  Mrs.  Georgia  France  (6) 
S Gerow,  Grace  D. 

B Glazier,  Louise  M. 

G Gotz,  Margarethe  (3) 

B Green,  Edith  Anne  (16) 

B Greenaway,  Kate  (6) 

B Grosvernor,  Lady  Caroline  (5) 

B Grosvernor,  Lady  Dorothy  H. 

B Grosvernor,  Mrs.  Thomas 
S Grover,  Olive  Lothrop  (3) 

S Hackley,  Mary  Frances  (11) 

B Hall,  Helena 

S Hollowed,  Elisabeth  Moore  (5) 
B Hallward,  Mrs.  Ella  E.  G.  (2) 

S H eisser,  Margarethe  E.  (8) 

B Helard,  C.  (15) 

G Hirsch,  Elli,  (4) 

B Holden,  Violet  M.  (2) 

S Hooper,  Mrs.  Annie  B.  (6) 

B Hughes,  Mrs.  Swinnerton  (5) 

B Hunt,  Muriel,  (2) 

S Hurlburt, 

B Jackson,  Enid  M. 

G Jacounchikoff,  Marie 
S Johnston,  Camille  D,  E. 

F Jourdan,  Mrs.,  1788 
S Judson,  Mrs.  Stiles  (2) 

G Kannengiesser,  Mrs.  Anna  H.  (2) 
S Kaucher,  Harriett  (8) 

G Kessler,  Anna 
S Key,  Mabel  (2) 

G Kichler,  Auguste 
G Knapp,  Maranne 
G Koerting,  Hedwig 
B Larcombe,  Ethel 


S Lawrence,  Margaretta 
S Lawrence,  Mary  Say 
B Levetus,  Celia  (25) 

G Lippert,  Adele  (6) 

G Lister,  Hamel  (3) 

S Little,  Florence  Estelle  (13) 

S Little,  Mrs.  Mary  Dodds  (2) 

G Lodeman,  Hilda  (2) 

S Lundborg,  Florence 
B Macdonald,  Frances 
B Macdonald,  Margaret 
S McDonald,  Hope 
B Mann,  Catherine  M. 

S Mansfield,  Mrs.  Blanche  Mc- 
Manus 

S Marsh,  Mrs.  Arthur  Richmond 
B Martyn,  Ethel  K.  (4) 

G May,  Anna  (3) 

B Mayo,  Geraldine,  Countess  of  (5) 
S Mercer,  Mrs.  Florence  Pettee 
B Milne,  Janie 
S Morse,  Kate 
B Newcome,  May  (5) 

S Nosworthy,  Mrs.  Florence  Eng- 
land 

G Ochs-Sh!enker,  Mrs.Kathinka(4) 
B Orde,  Margaret  L.  (6) 

S Ostertag,  Blanche 
G O’Swald,  Mrs.  Toni  (2) 

G Otolia,  Countess  Kraszewska 
S Page,  Mrs.  Georgia  W.  (4) 

S Page,  Adelaide  Helen 
S Pease,  Bessie  C.  (4) 

B Phelps,  S.  K. 

B Pitman,  Rosie  M.  M. 

G Pommell-Deutz,  Mrs.  Th.  von 


F Pompadour,  Madame,  1750 
S Prindiville,  Mary  L.  (15) 

S Raymond,  Ruth 
S Reade,  Christia  M.  (10) 

G Reichlin-Meldegg,  Irene  Freiin 
B Reid,  Marion  (5) 

S Reid,  Mary  M.  (9) 

G Reimers,  Mrs.  Engel 
B Richardson,  M. 

B Roberts,  Katherine  M. 

G Roderstein,  Ottilie 
S Rouillion,  Mrs.  Mary 
B Rush,  Olive 
B Russell,  Kate 
S Sacker,  Amy  M.  (5) 

S Saltmarsh,  Bertha  E.  (5) 

B Sandheim,  May 
G Schonberger,  Kathe  (5) 

G Schramm,  Mrs.  Olga  (3) 

A Schreder  Marianne  (7) 

S Scribner,  Sarah  Marguerite  (6) 
Sw  Sjoberg,  Anne-Charlotte 
B Skilton,  Mary  (2) 

S Smith,  Pamela  Colman  (6) 

B Spokes,  Mrs.  Russell 
B Stratton,  Helen  (3) 

G Stuler-Walde,  Marie  (4) 

S Totten,  Emma  J.  (8) 

G Varges,  Helene  (9) 

G Versel,  Annette  (3) 

F Vivier,  Louise  du,  1737 
S Walker,  Mrs.  Williston 
G Wahl,  Anna  von  (7) 

B Webb,  Marie  P. 

B Welsberg,  Countess  von  (2) 

G Werner,  Mrs.  W.  1 8th  Century 


S Wesson,  Grace  Edwards 
S Wheelan,  Mrs.  Albertine  Ran- 
dall (9) 

S Whitehouse,  Mrs.  Margaret 
B Whittaker,  Gwladys 
G Willey  Elli  (5) 

S Winterbotham,  Ruth 
B Woodward,  Alice  B.  (4) 

B Worsfold,  Maud  B. 

S Wright,  Grace  Latimer  (5) 

G Wyon,  Maria  Elizabeth,  18th 
Century 


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By  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Curtis  Brenton 


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By  Helen  Stratton 


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WILLIAMS 


By  EmmaJ.  Totten 


By  Mrs.  Albertine  Randall  Wheelan 


By  Grace  Wright 


Of  WOMEN  DESIGNERS 
of  BOOK-PLATES 
there  has  been  printed  four  hun- 
dred copies  in  the  month  of  February, 
1902.  Numbers  i to  100  are  on 
Japanese  vellum  and  numbers  toi 
to  400  are  on  Enfield  deckle-edge 
paper.  This  is  number 


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THE  MERCANTILE  LIBRARY 

THE  RECORD  BELOW  MUST  NOT  BE  ALTERED 
BY  THE  BORROWER. 


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